As we know, the PS4 came out and sold a lot of consoles. But consoles are only as good as the games you can play on them. So how’s the PS4 doing in that respect?

Ironically, its exclusives aren’t doing as well critically as the multi-platform releases. Here’s a look at how the games are doing.

We took a look at Metacritic to see how games were ranked, and the first thing we noticed is that a fair chunk of the games didn’t even get full reviews. So we stuck just to the ones that actually got full, separate reviews. The results were… still surprising, however. Here they are, from best to worst.

With a Metacritic score of 87, DICE pretty handily takes the crown of “best-reviewed launch game.” That’s a real surprise since it was stuck at 80 for most other platforms.

Close behind Battlefield 4 was NBA 2K14, with 85 on Metacritic. It’s interesting particularly because Madden and FIFA got the “Eh, they’re Madden and FIFA” treatment. This was apparently different enough to stand out.

The PS4 was a good thing for EA critically; Need For Speed: Rivals is at 84, and seems be benefitting from the lack of both Driveclub, pushed back to 2014, and Gran Turismo, which is going to a farewell tour on the PS3 first.

An odd bullet-hell shooter with a cylindrical playing field, Resogun is definitely a niche title. But a well-designed one, with 82 on Metacritic. Having tried it out, it’s worth playing, although it does take a little getting used to.

Assassin’s Creed IV is a solid game solid game, but the only difference is the graphics, really. Which is probably why it’s tied with Resogun at 82.

Call of Duty is taking a beating this yearly go-round, and the PS4 is no exception; it’s at 78 on Metacritic… which is actually the best the game has done, critically.

Pretty graphics and a fairly open play structure aren’t enough to save this Killzone game from the yellow at 74. But as you might have noticed, it’s the first exclusive to arrive. Yeah, things go downhill from here.

Namely to 67 for Contrast; mostly critics seemed to feel it was a little too been-there, done that.

Finally, according to critics, Knack is the bottom of the barrel, at just 58. Most of the hostility was reserved for the fact that the game is hard as nails.

I disagree, except about the challenge; it’s not a bad game, just a bit shallow and more focused on adding pieces to its hero than presenting something more complex than fighting and jumping.

So, that’s how they rank; we’ll be curious to see how the next round of games does.

I know we same to say this about every new system that launches, but this feels like one of the worst launch lineups I can think of, and I say that as a PS4 owner. I am enjoying AC4 on the PS4 though, graphics are definitely crisper than current gen…. or are we calling it past gen now?

Knack’s biggest sin isn’t that it’s too hard (Lol) but that its frame-rate sucks and for a next gen game, even a launch title, that’s pretty lame. But that’s a problem that can get patched down the road. Anyone complaining about a game being hard needs to go play Super Meatboy or Dark Souls and shut the hell up.
Although Knack getting sandbagged for not being much more than a Fisher-Price God Of War but with boring level design is totally understandable.

Killzone actually has really solid multiplayer and a campaign that, despite the terrible voice acting, starts out well and does a decent job of showing off the new hardware but turns into a tedious slog in the final third. But if you’re a fan of the series then you will want it for the story but otherwise you’ll be disinterested.

Resogun is a very smartly designed next-gen shout-out to the side scrolling shooters of yore and also does a phenomenal job of showing off the new hardware and the best part is it’s FREE with PS+.

Battlefield 4 is hands down the best looking game on the PS4 and it runs really well with only a fraction of the bugs and hiccups that have been plaguing PC players and to Sony/PS4’s credit the patches so far have been swiftly implemented.

I haven’t gotten hands-on with Need For Speed but the word of mouth on it so good I might just have to take a look.

Assassin’s Creed 4 looks and plays great. It still has a few of the series weaknesses like so-so writing and characters but the Desmond bullshit is thankfully gone and the framing device for the story is amusingly meta. If you were planning on getting it, its worth it for next-gen and the upgraded visuals. The naval combat was the absolute best thing about AC3 and this game has that stuff in spades and it’s even more fleshed out since you can now pillage to your little pirate heart’s content. I can’t even care about the story’s flaws because the naval/pirate stuff is so addicting.

The backstory is the government sold a bunch of planets to the Helghast, then one turned out to be full of resources and was screwing up the galactic economy, so they forcibly took it back and made the Helghast live on a shitty planet that turned them into mutants.

I get that the Helghast were not nice people, but you look at the story on paper, they’re not the bad guys.